GEO Group, Inc.

The GEO Group, Inc. "is a world leader in privatized correctional and detention management." Their website notes that "Our revenue at year-end 2006 was $860.8 million, and net income was $30.031 million."

The GEO Group, Inc. "was initially founded as a division of The Wackenhut Corporation in 1984 under the name of Wackenhut Corrections (WCC)." The in "April 1988, WCC was incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Wackenhut Corporation." also see

Directors
Accessed February 2008:


 * George C. Zoley - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Founder The GEO Group, Inc.
 * Wayne H. Calabrese - Vice Chairman - President and Chief Operating Officer The GEO Group, Inc.
 * Norman A. Carlson - Former Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
 * Anne Newman Foreman - Former Under Secretary, United States Air Force
 * Richard H. Glanton - Senior Vice President, Corporate Development Exelon Corp.
 * John M. Palms - Distinguished University Professor, President Emeritus, University of South Carolina
 * John M. Perzel - Member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Contact

 * Web: http://www.thegeogroupinc.com

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * John G. O'Rourke - Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer for the GEO Group


 * Wackenhut_Corporation

External Resources

 * Bob Libal, "Prisons For Fun And Profit", Znet, June 17, 2006.
 * GEO Group Rap Sheet (undated)
 * 66 Deaths in Domestic Immigrant Prisons Signal Need to Shut Down Privatized ICE, AlterNet, May 6, 2008 Between Jan04 & Nov07, 66 people died while in the custody of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency ... more than the number of those who died while in custody at Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo -combined.
 * Wackenhut CEO leaves company after problems, Associated Press, 11.Jan.08, The CEO of Wackenhut Corp., which recently lost its job protecting 10 nuclear power plants after guards at one plant were caught napping, has left the company. ... The security provider, a subsidiary of British-based security giant G4S PLC, thanked Gary A. Sanders for his service but did not say why he left in a press release issued Thursday. Grahame Gibson, a board member & G4S's chief operating officer, now has responsibility for the company's North American operations.


 * Eye On Wackenhut: Union-maintained site focused on the second largest private security company in the United States, which is alleged to cut corners in hiring, training...


 * Press Release -Wackenhut Corrections' UK company opens new prison for HM Prison Service at Marchington, UK, **25-year contract, excess of $900 million in revenues, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (NYSE: WHC) today announced that its United Kingdom joint-venture company, Premier Custodial Group, Ltd., successfully opened HM Prison & Therapeutic Community Dovegate, an 800-bed adult male prison & therapeutic community facility, located in Marchington, Staffordshire, England. ...  WCC is a world leader in the privatised correctional management, medical & mental health rehabilitation services industry. The Company offers government agencies a turnkey approach to the development of new correctional & mental health institutions that includes design, construction, financing & operations. WCC has contracts/awards to manage 56 correctional, detention & mental health facilities representing nearly 39,000 beds in North America, Europe, Australia, South Africa & New Zealand. WCC also provides prisoner transportation services, electronic monitoring for home detainees and correctional health care services. The company is a subsidiary of The Wackenhut Corporation (NYSE: WAK WAKB).